LavaLab

LavaLab is the University of Southern Californias premiere, student-run, product incubator. Founded in the Spring of 2013 by a group of students led by Eric Pakravan, LavaLab is now in its seventh year and prides itself on the graduation of ten diverse cohorts of the schools best engineers, product thinkers, and designers. Each semester twenty-eight new members are welcomed into the community, and are given the unique opportunity to meet their co-founders. Placed into seven individual teams, cohort members are presented a comprehensive curriculum including presentations, guest lectures, workshops, and Fireside Chats. Every semester culminates in LavaLabs capstone event: Demo Night, a professional showcase of entirely student-created products to industry leaders and investors. In 2011, Marc Andreessen, cofounder and general partner of Andreessen Horowitz, wrote in The Wall Street Journal that . . . software is eating the world. We agree, but theres more to the equation. As the ...